Abstract

The silos are widely used in bulk material in many fields such as agriculture, mining, chemical, electric power storage, etc. Thin metal cylindrical silo shells are vulnerable to buckling failure caused by the compressive wall friction force. In this paper, the structural analysis of two types of steel silo with cylindrical-wall bearing and profile-steel bearing is implemented by Abaqus finite element analysis. The results indicate that under the same loading conditions, steel silos with profile-steel bearing and cylindrical-Wall bearing have similar values in Mises stress, but the steel silo with profile-steel bearing has a smaller radial displacement and a better capability of buckling resistance. Meanwhile, the total steel volumes reduced 8.0% comparing to the steel silo with cylindrical-wall bearing. Therefore, steel soil with profile-steel bearing not only has a less steel volumes but also a good stability.

Details

Title
THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF STEEL SILOS WITH CYLINDRICAL-WALL BEARING AND PROFILE-STEEL BEARING
Author
Tang, Zhengjun; Zhou, Daibiao; Peng, Chenwei; Wu, Wenping
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Jul 2015
Publisher
Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Civil Engineering
e-ISSN
18052576
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14311/CEJ.2015.02.0012
ProQuest document ID
2383343378
Copyright
© 2015. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.